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Ellen Landgraf

Ellen Landgraf , CPA
Title: Associate Professor
Office #: 528
Phone: 312-915-7105
E-mail: elandgr@luc.edu


Personal Information

Degrees

  • Ph.D., Business Administration, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1991
  • M.B.A., Northern Illinois University, 1984
  • C.P.A. Certificate, 1976
  • B.B.A., Managerial Accounting, Loyola University of Chicago, 1974

Research Interests

  • Executive compensation
  • Corporate governance and social responsibility
  • Corporate Disclosure and Reputation
  • Ethics and Accounting

Professional Associations

  • ACFE-Association of Certified Fraud Examiners 
  • Illinois CPA Society (Ethics Committee-Appointed Member)
  • Financial Executives Institute (FEI)
  • AICPA, On Campus Champion

Professional Activities

  • Review of Accounting and Finance, Editorial Board Member and reviewer
  • ICPAS (Illinois CPA Society) Ethics Committee, appointed member

Awards

  • Outstanding Educator Award 2004, Illinois CPA Society (ICPAS), 2004
  • President's Service Award, Financial Executives Institute (FEI), Chicago Chapter, 2004
  • Teaching Excellence Award, Loyola Undergraduate School of Business, 2003
  • Who's Who in Business Higher Education, 2003

Courses Taught

  • Undergraduate 
              Intermediate Accounting I   
              Auditing and Internal Control Systems
  • Graduate 
              Forensic Accounting and Fraud

Research Listings


REFEREED PUBLICATIONS
"Review of Accounting Ethics," AAE (Academic Exchange Extra), October 2004 2004

"Executive Compensation: Issues and Research," Journal of Accounting Literature, 1993, Volume 12, pp. 131-189 2003 , Co-Authors: Peter Tiessen and Thomas Scott , Reprinted by The Corporate Governance Classical Literature, Research Center of Corporate Governance, University of China, Nankai, 2003

"Corporate Disclosure Quality and Corporate Reputation," Review of Accounting & Finance, Vol. 2 Number 1 2003 , Co-Authors: Ahmed Riahi-Belkaoui

"Management Ownership, Tenure and Performance: Evidence on the Incentive Hypothesis," Journal of Business and Ecomic Perspectives, Vol. 21, No. 1 1995 , Co-Authors: Chandra Mishra

"The Effects of Ownership Structure on Value Added-Based Performance," Managerial Finance, Vol. 20, No. 9 1994 , Co-Authors: Ahmed Riahi-Belkaoui

"The Impact of Performance Plan Adoption on Value Added and Earnings," Managerial Finance, Vol. 20, No. 9 1994 , Co-Authors: Barbara Askren and James Bannister

"Effects of Ownership Structure, Firm Performance, Size and Diversification Strategy on CEO Compensation: A Path Analysis," Managerial Finance, Vol. 19, No. 2 1993 , Co-Authors: Ahmed Riahi-Belkaoui

"Executive Compensation: Issues and Research," Journal of Accounting Literature, Vol. 12, pp. 131-189 1993 , Co-Authors: P. Tiessen, T. Scott , Reprinted by Corporate Governance, Kevin Keasey, Steve Thompson, and Mike Wright, eds., 1999

"Executive Compensation: Issues and Research," Journal of Accounting Literature, Vol. 12 1993 , Co-Authors: Peter Tiessen and Thomas Scott

"Determinants of Executive Tenure in Large U.S. Firms," Managerial Finance, Vol. 19, No. 2 1993 , Co-Authors: Ahmed Riahi-Belkaoui

"The Effects of Ownership Structure and Diversification Strategy on Performance," Managerial and Decision Economics, Vol 13 1992 , Co-Authors: Ahmed Belkaoui

"Asset Management Performance and Reputation Building for Large U.S. Firms," British Journal of Management, Vol. 2 1991 , Co-Authors: Ahmed Belkaoui


PAPERS PRESENTED AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS
""Improving Student Research and Writing Skills"," 46th Annual IATC (Illinois Accounting Teachers Conference), October 21 2005

""Ethics in Auditing-The Connection (or disconnnection)"," 8th Annual CJBEC (Colleagues in Jesuit Business Education Conference), July 24 2005

"The Future of Accounting - Why You May Want to be a CPA in an Accounting Firm in 2010," ICPAS (Illinois CPA Society and Website), 2001


BOOKS AND MONOGRAPHS
Accounting For Corporate Reputation (Quorum Books) , 1992 , Co-Authors: Ahmed Riahi-Belkaoui

Determinants of Executive Compensation: Corporate Ownership, Performance, Size and Diversification (Quorum Books) , 1991 , Co-Authors: Ahmed Belkaoui


CONTRIBUTIONS OR CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
"Stock Compensation," A. Rashad Abdel-Khalik eds., (contribution to Blackwell Encyclopedic Dictionary of Accounting, Blackwell Publishers), 1997


OTHER RESEARCH ACTIVITY
"Corporate Annual Reports: A User's Guide," Development of End-of-Chapter materials, John Wiley and Sons 2003 , Co-Authors: Brian Stanko and Thomas Zeller

"Topics in Auditing-Spring 2002 (or ENRON couldn�t have happened at a better time)-Building a course around real world events," Illinois Accounting Teachers Conference, 2002